View full sizeLaw enforcement personnel from Gulf Shores and Baldwin County Sheriff's Office, as well as others, are staying very visible at the Hangout Music Festival. Here, officers and deputies watch over the crowd enjoying Afrojack perform at the Boom Boom Tent on Friday, May 17, 2013. (Marc D. Anderson/manderson@al.com)

“They originally arrested two girls and a guy trying to pass fake money and that information led to a location at the north end of the town,” Gulf Shores police spokesman Sgt. Jason Woodruff. “They served search warrants that afternoon and arrested five more.”

Authorities confiscated a few hundred dollars in $20 bills at the initial arrest and “recovered quite a bit more counterfeit money on the search warrant” in the Gulf Shores residence, Woodruff said.

According to Baldwin County Corrections Center records, seven individuals were booked Friday on charges of first-degree possession of a forged instrument and possession of a controlled substance, and four others solely on first-degree possession of a forged instrument charges.

In was unclear Saturday which individuals were linked to the counterfeiting money case. Due to Secret Service involvement and the ongoing law enforcement patrols of the festival details will not be released till Monday, authorities said.

“It was just somebody trying to be a counterfeiter and they had some buddies in town for the festival and it just kind of steamrolled from there,” Woodruff said. “They certainly would’ve spread that throughout the festival so it was good to just get it off the streets.

“It was some good work done by everybody. Our patrol guys and several of our detectives worked the case and did a good job getting it done.”

Overall, 20 arrests were reported on Friday and nine on Thursday at the 3-day festival, Woodruff said. Most of the charges involved possession of marijuana.